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OPERA AND NASCHMARKT

This is an area of huge contrasts, ranging the city’s outskirts, following the curving
from the stateliness of the Opera House and and sometimes subterranean River Wien.
the opulence of the Opernring shops to the Between these roads is the bustling
raucous modernity of Mariahilfer Strasse. Naschmarkt, overlooked by Otto Wagner’s
The long street is lined with cinemas and Jugendstil apartments on the Linke
department stores, drawing shoppers not Wienzeile. Visitors needing a break can
just from Vienna but from parts of eastern seek refuge in the celebrated Café Museum,
Europe. The other major thoroughfare in the located near the three great cultural
area is the Linke Wienzeile, which runs institutions of the area – the Academy
parallel to the Rechte Wienzeile. Both roads of Fine Arts, the Opera House and the
stretch from just beyond the Ringstrasse to Secession Building.

Sights at a Glance
Streets and Squares Restaurants pp215–16
8 Mariahilfer Strasse 1 Aux Gazelles
Historic Buildings 2 Café Drechsler
3 Café Ritter
1 State Opera House pp140–41 4 Café Sacher
2 Hotel Sacher 5 Café Sperl
5 Theater an der Wien 6 Café Westend GOETHEGASSE OPERNG.
7 Wagner Apartments 7 Kostas KÄRNTNER STRASSE
Museums and Galleries 8 Mama Liu & Sons BABENBERGERSTR. O P E R N R I N G
3 Academy of Fine Arts 9 Neni E L I S A B E T H S T R A S S E
4 Secession Building 10 Restaurant Anna Sacher ESCHENBACHGASSE Karlsplatz
9 Kaiserliches Hofmobilien depot 11 Restaurant Hofbräu N I BE LU NG E N G.
0 Haydn Museum 12 Saint Charles Alimentary Museums-
quartier
Markets 13 Tewa RAHLGASSE G E T R E I D E M A R K T FRIEDRICHSTR.
6 Naschmarkt THEOBALDGASSE ÁRGASSE
GUMPENDORFER STRASSE
M ARIAHILFE R ST RA SS E KÖSTLERG. ALFRED- LINKE WIENZEILE
LEH
W I N D M Ü H L G A S S E
GIRARDIG.
GRÜNWALD-
PARK

STIEGENG.
Neubaugasse BARNABITENGASSE Kettenbrücken-
SCHADEK GASSE gasse
ESTERHAZY-
M A R I A H I L F E R S T R A S S E EST E R HAZYGASSE CORNELIUSG. KAUNITZG ASSE W I E N Z E I L E
PARK
AMERLINGSTR.
Zieglergasse
OT TO-BAUER-GASSE
140m WEBGASSE SC H M AL ZHO FGAS SE LOQUAI- G UM P EN D ORFE R STRASS E HOFMÜHLGAS L I N K E
PLATZ
SANDWIRTGASSE SE
HIRSCHENGASSE
LINIENGASSE WEBGASSE GRABNERGASSE M O L L A R D G A S S E See also Street Finder
S T U M P E R G A S S E
HAYDNGASSE
maps 3, 4 and 5
MARCHETTIGASSE
S TU MPE R G .
0 metres 250 BRÜCKENG.
0 yards 250

Pretty flower pattens on the façade of Majolikahaus, one of the Wagner Apartments For keys to symbols see back flap

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